Sons of the Hydra

An Alpha Legion warband goes an epic quest for salvation that will pit them against both the Word Bearers and the Inquisition in a thrilling science fiction adventure.

In the hostile universe of the 41st millennium, where allegiances are ever fickle, few of the Emperor’s sons are more difficult to understand or predict than the Alpha Legion. Branded traitor since the Heresy, their motives and actions have always been shrouded in mystery. Alpha Legionnaire Occam the Untrue leads his warband out of its hunting grounds in the Maelstrom on an epic quest for salvation, not just for himself, but for his whole Legion. With the forces of the Inquisition snapping at their heels, Occam and his followers must use all their guile and considerable martial prowess as they make their way to the cold heart of the galaxy, to a confrontation that no one, least of all Occam himself, could have foreseen.

Rob Sanders’ Black Library credits include two novels in The Beast Arises series – Predator, Prey and Shadow of Ullanor – along with the Warhammer 40,000 novels Adeptus Mechanicus, Legion of the Damned and Atlas Infernal. For The Horus Heresy series, he is the author of the novellas Cybernetica and The Serpent Beneath, the latter of which appeared in the New York Times bestselling Horus Heresy anthology The Primarchs. He has also written the Warhammer fantasy Archaon duology, Everchosen and Lord of Chaos. Rob lives in the city of Lincoln, UK.